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Manic Bipolar Rapper Gets Arrested, Goes to Rehab & Becomes a Politician
Sat, 15 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: How did Reed Byers experience childhood trauma?
I was Jesus Christ. I was walk-a-fuck-a-thing. When they raided me, saw the Grim Reaper that night, lights would beam out from my eyes and they would light up and I would see something that was inside of them that wasn't there. When I was 12, things started to change. Flashing cop lights, mom and dad beat the crap out of each other, loud music till the morning, like, what's going on?
The kids at school, like, they don't go through this stuff. So something was happening. Their marriage was falling apart. Mom had been a powder addict since she was 16. I just found that out a few years ago after she passed away.
It helps looking backward, looking at her behavior, her undiagnosed mental illness, like how belligerent she was, how violent she could be on the way that the family fell apart, that she was chasing an addiction, trying to support her habit. Dad lost his job at the plant. You know, he was a maintenance supervisor at a plant.
And I guess he rode around in a camper for like a month, hung out down at the river lot, acting like he was going to work, but wasn't. So when my mom found out, she's like, hey, you're going to go to North Carolina. It's not good.
I hear about that. The guys that like will leave and act like they're going to work. Like, don't you think that's going to catch up with you?
It did.
Yeah, I mean, I know. But I mean, to me, it's I can't blame him because he's probably get socked in the mouth.
If that was the truth when it came out and he did get socked. My mom beat the shit out of my dad a lot. There's only one time we're going to fast forward to this wild story. We were at the beach in North Carolina for some kind of work retreat for my dad. And dad came back from the event early because they were down there drinking or whatever. Mom had gotten loose.
She likes to dance and cause a scene. You're like, you know, speak up a little bit. I'm like, I don't want to start acting like my mom here. So he comes back into the bedroom. It was me, my brother, my brother-in-law. And I just remember waking up and dad was like in the bed next to me, next to my brother. And mom came in and out of nowhere, she was just like, what are you doing, Scott?
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Chapter 2: What led to Reed's struggles with addiction?
Chapter 3: How did Reed's mental health issues manifest?
Okay.
Yeah.
That doesn't quite seem, I mean, you can be mentally, I don't know if that is the term, it's unstable, but you could be delusional and not be a harm to yourself. You know what I'm saying? So I don't, I don't, that doesn't really, I didn't like it either.
I've got the papers from it and they talk about the psychotic features and the delusions and stuff, but it was never going to harm anybody. I'm not, you know, they probably tried to draw out homicidal or suicidal thoughts out of me. Sometimes they'll try and lead you in that if they think that they're going to be helping you.
That's one of the standards. Like, have you considered this? Have you thought about this? Have you this? And it's, you know, I was going to say no, no, no, no, no. Hard nose. Learn that the hard way. Well, sure. Everybody does. Oh, that's a bad one. That's a bad one. Not in months. Well, sometimes people make me mad. I, you know, have a quick glimpse of smashing their head.
I would never do that. Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, that's it.
And they got me. So 14 days in there, lithium, Depakote, Klonopin, Ativan, who knows all of the drugs that they gave me. And I was sedated. I was stabilized, as they would call it. And that slew, that cocktail of medications would lead me to become like 260 pounds over time, Zyprexa. There was a class action lawsuit against this specific medication.
billions of dollars, whole firms dispatched to take down this, you know, whoever created Zyprexa. I never got a settlement.
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Chapter 4: What was the turning point in Reed's recovery?
You know, he kept speaking to me positively, showing me that I might have a purpose to share my story, to witness, you know, to overcome these things, to maybe talk to people who are in positions of power who want to reform the prison system or reform the community so we don't have more people getting arrested. And I just caught fire.
He said, if you're scared about coming home and using drugs, relapsing, you know, committing crimes again, what would it take for you to have the life that you wanted? So I sat down, you know, I was working the 12 steps too, but I sat down and created a plan, you know, mind, spirit, body, relationships, career. What are the things that I want? What do I need to do to be the person I want to do?
And I just mapped it out and I had this big plan. And before I even came home, I started working on it. Well, I want to lose the weight. So I started walking. I walk a mile. I'm walking three miles a day. Now I'm walking nine miles a day. And I started running. We had as a big bowl.
out there's one of the two big biggest prisons in ohio you got noble county and chillicothe and there's like 2 400 guys there huge and on the prison yard there was a bowl we called it and there's like a 30 foot 40 foot hill that goes down into it i'll never forget the guys pushing some guy in a wheelchair down the hill willingly just for wreck like he's going down a slide but that same hill
Guys would bear crawl up. They would crab crawl up it. They would walk and run up it. And I hadn't exercised in who knew how long, but a friend of mine, I said, why don't you come run a hill or two with me? So we did. And I sprinted this hill and, you know, sat down afterwards and felt like I was going to die. I said, man, my head hurts. He said, yeah, it's called no exercise.
So I was walking every day, started running these little hill sprints, paying attention to the scale. I changed up what I was eating and I got down to, I don't know, maybe 205. And I, you know, started doing pushups and lunges and squats. Lee, you know, the dude that slept next to me and sold pop. He showed me how to work out a little bit.
So I'm doing bicep curls and chest press and leg day with them. And eventually I run my first mile. And, you know, over those last six months I was there, I went from 240 to 190 and came home. I was in great shape. I remember I was doing insanity at 5 a.m. for the last like three or four weeks that I was there with a couple of guys. I did yoga for the first time when I was in prison.
I had, you know, not talk to all the negative people in my life for a long time. I've been going to a, like I said, chapel and I came home and it was just a completely different person. And my life's been incredible ever since. I mean, I just told you, I flew down from Connecticut down here to Tampa about to fly up to Wilmington, North Carolina. And, uh, you just did Ian Beck.
I did just do locked in with Ian Beck. Shameless plug there. Shout out to Kyle Overmeyer since we're on the subject of introducing. Yeah. Good old Sandusky County sheriff, right? Yeah.
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